As a final incentive before giving up a

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.